In Shitty First Drafts, Anne Lamott describes that as writers, we need to start somewhere and that is usually by making a really crappy first draft that is long and boring. We should not be discouraged by this first draft and should ignore the voices that tell us we are not good writers according to this first draft because we need to go through two, three or maybe many more to get to the really great writing.
In what Writing is, Stephen King talks about getting the ideas onto the page and writing well because everyone thinks differently and perceives things differently and your point needs to be clear. He says to approach writing seriously and not lightly so that you can write well.
Allegra Goodman, in her article, "Calming the inner critic and getting to work", talks about comparing yourself to writers long past. She says that it is important to forget the past and focus on loving your work because in that, you will forget about all the voices telling you that you will never be as good as the writers before.
In "To see your story clearly, start by pulling the wool over your own eyes", Kent Haruf believes that everyone has there own nitch where they write and that it should bring them to a place of motivation. He also states that he thinks that the three most important things in writing novels are spontaneity, simplicity, and clarity because you need to have a fresh and vivid mind when writing.
In "Directions: Write, read rewrite. repeat steps 2 and 3 as needed, Susan Sontag talks about how writing is an act of reading which then is an act of writing. She says that after you write, you get to go back and re read and re write but that it is the best because you already have something to work with. She also displays that reading and writing are compatible
In "Becoming a writer" by Junot Diaz, he describes his 5 years of failure and his desire to go on while he came to the conclusion; "in my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing away."
Using these essays: I think that all of the writers have had writers blocks, demotivation from critics and previous material already written, and fear of failure. Each writer has their own place or own way of writing drafts and revising and editing, they all have their own systems.
Meta Moment:
1. I have learned not to worry about what everyone else is going to say about my writing, to be more consumed in what i want to say than being vain and wanting to be known for what i am saying, and to not give up on writing even when it is hard to write.
2. My conceptions of good writing and writers was that you were born to write and that there is something different about writers than everyone else. now i see that it is having a desire to write and be heard and never giving up. First drafts are sometimes really shitty and discouraging but sometimes you just need to get it out.
Reflection: i thought it was cool to read about these writers and see how, where and what they are thinking about when they write. It took a while but it was interesting and more entertaining to read.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
January 27th post
Harris Summary- Harris believes in his article, Composing behaviors of one- and multi-draft writers, that one-draft and multi- draft writers are different and each have their own styles and revisions and are both needed in certain citations.
I think that I am a one- draft writer because I write my whole paper and go back and add and delete things, revise, and edit. I also plan and try to organize and make outlines before i start writing. when he says on page 180 that they cannot start until they are organized and focused, it connects with me. because i am a one draft writer, I may miss out on information and also I become very unorganized because all of my thoughts are in one place.
Reflection: This article took 6 pages to get into his main point and talk about one and multi draft writers and explain differences. I thought it was interesting and related but it took way too long.
Summary: In How do I write by Ransom, she describes her own writing process by giving herself one hour to do her normal journal assignment before class and writes down what she is thinking every five minutes. She finds that because she is under a time restraint, she spends more time editing and her thoughts are sometimes unorganized.
Some other questions to consider:
Time constraint makes thoughts come fast and sometimes unorganized, analyzing your own writing allows you to figure out how you write best, it is hard to write when feeling rushed. By doing my own study, i want to see how much time i spend in writers block and distracted. I would like to know how i came up with certain ways that i write and why i write what i do based off of experiences.
Sometimes i think that when you just keep writing, your brain keeps moving and thinking. this is better than sitting and letting yourself get into a writers block. iF your doing soduko , you cant just expect the numbers to fill in, you have to keep trying until you work your way around the problem.
Response: I liked reading this because it helped me figure out how i want to write this next paper
I think that I am a one- draft writer because I write my whole paper and go back and add and delete things, revise, and edit. I also plan and try to organize and make outlines before i start writing. when he says on page 180 that they cannot start until they are organized and focused, it connects with me. because i am a one draft writer, I may miss out on information and also I become very unorganized because all of my thoughts are in one place.
Reflection: This article took 6 pages to get into his main point and talk about one and multi draft writers and explain differences. I thought it was interesting and related but it took way too long.
Summary: In How do I write by Ransom, she describes her own writing process by giving herself one hour to do her normal journal assignment before class and writes down what she is thinking every five minutes. She finds that because she is under a time restraint, she spends more time editing and her thoughts are sometimes unorganized.
Some other questions to consider:
Time constraint makes thoughts come fast and sometimes unorganized, analyzing your own writing allows you to figure out how you write best, it is hard to write when feeling rushed. By doing my own study, i want to see how much time i spend in writers block and distracted. I would like to know how i came up with certain ways that i write and why i write what i do based off of experiences.
Sometimes i think that when you just keep writing, your brain keeps moving and thinking. this is better than sitting and letting yourself get into a writers block. iF your doing soduko , you cant just expect the numbers to fill in, you have to keep trying until you work your way around the problem.
Response: I liked reading this because it helped me figure out how i want to write this next paper
Thursday, January 26, 2012
January 27th post
1. Summary: In Barbra Tomlinson's "Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for revision, she is stating that we should not trust only metaphors that we are given in writing because they are not always the whole picture if what is true or possible. She gives 8 specific examples of metaphors that highlight certain revision strategies while also leaving out certain information or unintentionally highlighting other unimportant information. She shows that all these strategies put together could make one full revision process, showing that they are only part of the process when left isolated.
2. 1. She is saying that the metaphors don’t always resemble the complicated structure that writing entitles
2.If we just look at a metaphor, we don’t get the whole picture of what writing actually is. In one metaphor, is one or two ways that a writer may write, but there are many ways that are left out when describing a process. The problem also is that we also are looking at things in the metaphors that are unlike the process (262). He is saying that we gain certain information and ideas from a metaphor but we also gain wrong or incorrect views as well. To fix the problem, revision of the stories needs to take place. We also need to look at many sides of the story.
1. 3.The refining ore is interesting and I think portrays Dawkins in a way that there are many drafts made. I think if I had more time I would write like this. I also like casting and recasting because I think it portrays that you sometimes have to fix things over and over and nothing is set until you turn in that final paper. Also the sculpting made sense to me and is most how I write. I don’t like to revise anything until I have laid out the paper. Chisel after the gross work.
2. 4. It is possible that the different stratagies that the metaphors portray could come into play at different times that you are revising because they all are ways to revise. Arguing against, people do not all revise in the same way and may not use these ways at all. They may have their own process.
5. As I stated in number three, I think that most of the revising teqniqus, I use at some point or another during my editing process but I relate most to the sculpting.
reflection: I thought that this article was good, showing that we cant always take metaphors too literally because they aren't complex enough to give the whole picture. It wasn't too hard of a read.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
January 25 Carol Berkenkotter
Summary:
In Decisions and Revisions, Carol Berkenkotter studies Donald Murray over a period of 62 days to better understand and pay attention to " the setting in which the writer composes the kind of task the writer confronts, and what the writer can tell us of his own process"(Page 218). Carol does just this through giving different examples and explaining what Dawkins does on a daily basis during his writing, revising and editing process.
1 Murray' writing process was very complicated. I think any thoughts about writers having sudden inspiration was really proved wrong in this study because Murray's puts so much thought and effort into his writing, especially the planning process. It is interesting that Murray writes in a daybook and journal all day. Murray is much more organized that I am in his process but that is also because I don't write as an occupation. I think that I plan a lot but i do not spend the time i should editing and revising
2 I am confused myself with his relationship with the audience. He states in paragraph 19 that a second kind of planning activity was the stating of rhetorical goals... planning how to reach an audience. He takes responses from colleges and summarizes them and puts it into his first draft. He revises and goes over their responces numerous times. I do not think that i put this much effort into what my audience thinks.
3. She realized that the planning and revising process are linked together and basically the same thing because you re-conceive meaning you are always planning and revising.
AE
1. I spend my time writing in various increments, my writing experience consists of writing papers for english classes including research, poems, and all the types of high school requirements. my writing experience doesn't give me time to really go through the writing process thoroughly.
Meta Moment
I learned that i should make numerous drafts and sometimes start over to get the important things across my mind. this will help me stay more organized so that all my thoughts dont just go into one document. Also, keeping a notebook with all my thoughts about a paper so that i am not trying to write all at once
In Decisions and Revisions, Carol Berkenkotter studies Donald Murray over a period of 62 days to better understand and pay attention to " the setting in which the writer composes the kind of task the writer confronts, and what the writer can tell us of his own process"(Page 218). Carol does just this through giving different examples and explaining what Dawkins does on a daily basis during his writing, revising and editing process.
1 Murray' writing process was very complicated. I think any thoughts about writers having sudden inspiration was really proved wrong in this study because Murray's puts so much thought and effort into his writing, especially the planning process. It is interesting that Murray writes in a daybook and journal all day. Murray is much more organized that I am in his process but that is also because I don't write as an occupation. I think that I plan a lot but i do not spend the time i should editing and revising
2 I am confused myself with his relationship with the audience. He states in paragraph 19 that a second kind of planning activity was the stating of rhetorical goals... planning how to reach an audience. He takes responses from colleges and summarizes them and puts it into his first draft. He revises and goes over their responces numerous times. I do not think that i put this much effort into what my audience thinks.
3. She realized that the planning and revising process are linked together and basically the same thing because you re-conceive meaning you are always planning and revising.
AE
1. I spend my time writing in various increments, my writing experience consists of writing papers for english classes including research, poems, and all the types of high school requirements. my writing experience doesn't give me time to really go through the writing process thoroughly.
Meta Moment
I learned that i should make numerous drafts and sometimes start over to get the important things across my mind. this will help me stay more organized so that all my thoughts dont just go into one document. Also, keeping a notebook with all my thoughts about a paper so that i am not trying to write all at once
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Michael Kleine
Summary:
In “What is it we do when we write articles like this one- and how can we get students to join us?”, Klein describes a situation at the night library where all the students, high school and college, sit and have conversation about other things while doing “research” for a paper which they merely report. He explains that research is more than just collecting existing information. It is about answering real questions (klein 22). He describes the hunting and gathering process in which we find what we are looking for and discover what might be of use (Klein 23). He shows this process through the research of 8 professors from different departments and dissects what they do during research. He writes this article in hope that students will learn to effectively and rhetorically learn how to hunt and gather research.
WAW
1. My experiences are much like the night study where I report what I read but because of our class now, I feel like I understand the process of rhetorical reading and writing and the hunting and gathering better. I still struggle with researching how he explains in the process of sifting and seeking that he describes
3. Research plays a role that the professors collect research first, then pull what they want out of it, seek patterns in data to draw conclusions and translate what they have found. They use research to make and establish their own data and findings. My research usually is to just regurgitate a certain point that I am trying to make. This is also something I have struggled with in our past paper.
4. I would research much more so that I would have enough data to draw conclusions from. I would follow his four step process more clearly. I would not use research to just support a point, but to use the web of intertext to collaborate and see the collaboration of data.
Response:
I think this was a good article. I think it really restates the rhetorical reading, writing, framing, intertext, discourse communities concepts that we have already read. I did like some of the examples from the professors but was confused by what he meant on some of them. I did like the 4 step process and I feel like hunting and gathering was a good metaphor when he said that the gatherer discovers what might be of use.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
January 18th assignment
Allen
I believe that my experiences between the inspired and real writer are similar to Allen’s. She describes, on page 36, that to the inspired writer, writing comes easily. When we read great articles or novels or any piece of writing that inspires us, we think that the writer is a good writer who was inspired instead of thinking of how hard they had to work to put together this great piece of writing. She says the inspired writer is really “the transcendent distortion of real-life writers”. We need to realize that they had writers block and many of the things we struggle with, they were just ‘inspired’ to work through it with extra time and effort. I feel like I relate to Allen on page 39 when she says that when she experiences these writers blocks she feels like a fraud, has no business writing, and isn’t good at it. I often do this in my writing. This is encouraging because now I see that it is not about letting things come easy to you but good writing comes with a lot of hard work that is expected.
- Response- I liked this article. I thought it was a little long but I enjoyed it. It motivates me to work harder because I know that I can still be a decent writer even if it takes me twice as long. I just need to put in more effort.
Murray
GRR- I have been taught to put my opinions into my work and other than poems, I have not been encouraged to write freely like in a journal.
Summary: In “ All Writing Is Autobiography” by Donald M. Murray, he talks about putting our own personal experiences into our writing. Writing is creative and comes from many of our personal experiences or imaginary ideas that we put into writing. He explains the importance of writing Autobiographically and how it brings meaning into our lives.
1. Murray is asking us to reconsider the poor writing description that writing is not autobiographical. He describes it is because we put our own past experiences into it.
3. Murray’s article is much different than the other articles in this chapter. He provokes the thought that all writing and at the end he states that even reading is all autobiographical. Unlike the other authors, he states that “we should not move away from personal or reflective narrative in composition courses, but closer to it”(page 64), instead of looking from the point of intertext. He says that we use our own experiences to write. He also is talking from more of a poem, fiction, nonfiction, novel type writing rather than argumentative research.
I believe that Murray’s life experiences allow him to use writing as a type of therapy and he enjoys writing autobiographically. He states on page 61 that “writing autobiography is my way of making meaning of the life I have led and am leading and may lead.”
4. I believe that this article relates to the scholar world on page 64 when he states that “Creativity requires a continuity of concern, an intense awareness of one’s active inner life combined with sensitivity to the external world.” This makes me think that my personal experiences will bring about creativity in understanding the external world. That I may have a different input because of what I have already experienced.
I don’t see a whole list of things. I just see that he sees the world in a different way because of his experiences that allow him to add to the external world. This is what scholarly writing is very much about.
5. His writing just encourages me to put forth more of my own experience into my writing and this is unlike the other articles we have read
MM- Understanding Murray’s claims will help me have a better attitude when writing, help me express myself better, and really look into my personal experiences to help me understand the world around me.
Response: I really liked this article. It was much more about creativity and expressing and made me feel like I can have a say in my writing
Dawkins
GRR-
1. The treehouse, made of wood scraps and cardboard, made a great place to play for my sister and her friends
2. My sister’s tree house, made of wood scraps and cardboard, made a great place to play with her friends.
3. my sisters tree house made a great place to play with her friends made of wood scraps and cardboard?
I really am not sure. I joined two clauses in each. The first sentence I used an applause.
Summary: In the article “Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool”, Dawkins explains that the punctuation handbook enables the writers to write rhetorically. The ablity to influence the writer has a lot to do with how the writer puts emphasis into the text. He teaches how the principal “Rising and Lowering” help to bring back emphasis into the writing by ignoring the previous rules that aren’t always necessary.
2. Dawkins says that handbooks get Fragments and comma rules, clause rules, elliptical coordinate clause rules for commas and inconsistencies in the use of the comma with introductory word, phrase and clause. The book provides no instruction for many situations. He says the manuals enable writers to achieve rhetorical effects. ( Page 140 and 141)
3. The principle of “raising and lowering” is a principle in which semi-colons, commas and dashes are used to draw or take away emphasis in a certain sentence. If you want to emphasize an idea or statement, you will want to use a dash or a semicolon because it draws more attention and is read more dramatically. If you do not want to draw attention then you use a comma or nothing if possible.
5. I feel like I didn’t learn as much because I have been taught so much about punctuation. What I have learned is that punctuation has to do with the writer and the reader. Punctuation depends on the writer and how they want their writing to be expressed. The handbook tells us rules that aren’t always necessary or don’t really apply to the way that we want our writing to be portrayed. I
6. I worry about my grammar depending on who is reading it. I write the way I want and don’t care how grammatically correct it is. I place commas and semicolons where I feel they are necessary and help the reader. I don’t look at the handbook and memorize it so my grammar can be perfect unless my professor demands it. He has reemphasized my original thinking about grammar.
MM- I think that we are supposed to think rhetorically always in our writing and this article gives good examples of that. I have gained that I should write according to the emphasis that I want to put on certain things portrayed in my writing. If I write according to the rules instead using the principal rising and lowering, I will leave out quality to my writing for following the “rules”.
Response: I thought this article was okay. It made sense but only will work or be accepted according to the professor grading it. It will be helpful for future writing. A little boring to read because of all the examples but it was still good.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
January 13, Stedman Reading
Summary:
In the article, Annoying ways people use sources, Stedman talks about numerous ways that sources are incorrectly used and how to fix the problem so that as writers, we can better cite and use our sources. He explains many ways in which we use these sources incorrectly such as pulling quotes out of no where without introducing them, inappropriately ending paragraphs with quotes, using quotes to sound authoritative and a few others. After, he shows how to fix the problems so that we can cite usefully.
Questions:
1. His advice adds on to the advice from Greene, Kantz and porter because they talked about how to use sources as arguments in our ideas and framing of our papers and now we are being taught how to know when to use them in the actual context of the paper.
2. I have been taught to put sources wherever in a paper that I feel like I should. I have used them to back up arguments and not as bringing up an original argument but i have definatly used them in the context that readers would be annoyed as he was stated. Also, I used MLA format.
3. I am not sure that my views have changed from this particular reading, but I think I am more aware and will refer to this article when writing so that I do not use them incorrectly.
Response:
I enjoyed this reading and think that it is necessary. It gave me great guidelines about how to cite appropriately and in a non annoying way. It really added to what we have already learned about framing and intertext from our other readings and this put it together a little more.
In the article, Annoying ways people use sources, Stedman talks about numerous ways that sources are incorrectly used and how to fix the problem so that as writers, we can better cite and use our sources. He explains many ways in which we use these sources incorrectly such as pulling quotes out of no where without introducing them, inappropriately ending paragraphs with quotes, using quotes to sound authoritative and a few others. After, he shows how to fix the problems so that we can cite usefully.
Questions:
1. His advice adds on to the advice from Greene, Kantz and porter because they talked about how to use sources as arguments in our ideas and framing of our papers and now we are being taught how to know when to use them in the actual context of the paper.
2. I have been taught to put sources wherever in a paper that I feel like I should. I have used them to back up arguments and not as bringing up an original argument but i have definatly used them in the context that readers would be annoyed as he was stated. Also, I used MLA format.
3. I am not sure that my views have changed from this particular reading, but I think I am more aware and will refer to this article when writing so that I do not use them incorrectly.
Response:
I enjoyed this reading and think that it is necessary. It gave me great guidelines about how to cite appropriately and in a non annoying way. It really added to what we have already learned about framing and intertext from our other readings and this put it together a little more.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
January 11 response
GRR
I get ideas, advice, feedback and assistance in my writing from other Colleges, professors, my Dad, other articles or pieces of information, songs and quotes.
Summary: In Porter's Article, Intertextuality and the Discourse Community, He explains that all texts contain traces of other texts and that no work is completely original through the concept of intertextuality. He provides examples such as Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration based off of the ideas of many people and that documents should be accepted by a discourse community.
QD
2. I partially agree with Porter that intertext makes individual writers less important because their writing is a collaboration of others ideas and information making the thoughts borrowed. I believe because there are so many thoughts and ideas on a topic it is nearly impossible to write an article with all original thoughts and statements. But, there is so much information that sometimes it needs to be explained in a more clear fashion or like Jefferson, the ideas all need put together in an orderly way wether they are the direct ideas of the author or not.
3. According to Dictionary.com, autonomous is self governing, independent, and subject to its own laws only. On page 88 paragraph 4, Porter describes the romantic image of a writer as free, uninhibited spirit, independent and a creative genius. Therefor, an autonomous writer could be described as romantic.
4. I understand the importance of having acceptability within the reader's community because many of the readers have similar ideas or contributing information and knowledge. My papers have been evaluated by pier evaluating, my dad and my teachers. I thought my writing should be evaluated by a grade or how a teacher responds. I think that my papers need to be accepted by those interested in the topic and not by a grade or a certain way a teacher wants me to write.
5. I believe that Porter is right about intertextuality because the idea of intertextuality and all the terms that he talks about have been thought and written about by other authors and writers. At the same time, someone has to be the first to talk and think about something, but it is possible that at the same time, someone else could be thinking about the same thing. In his text, Porter is displaying the idea of intertextuality because he isn't talking about anything that hasn't been thought of before. He may explain examples differently, but the examples have also come from someone else.
6. There is much harm in imagining writing as individual, heroic and isolated because it most likely isn't. For students, it is impossible to create a paper and information without having some past knowledge. Also, Porter says it is important for students to know that documents like the Declaration of independence was the result of a large group of people rather than just one person. I completely agree.
MM- My idea has changed about writers being people who work to get their ideas on print because now I realize that all information is borrowed. I think that readers have different styles and ways of comprehending information so the writers help the readers understand by the way they collaborate information. I see writers as not completely original but "effective borrowers of traces" as Porter describes Jefferson in paragraph 8. Now i am challenged to better collaborate information (much more information) in a way that makes sense to argue my point.
REFLECTION
I thought this article was really long to explain the point of intertextuality and discourse communities. I am still a little confused on discourse communities but I liked the examples such as the Declaration that helped to explain intertextuality. My views have changed on writing by the concept of intertextuality and it has motivated me to bring many sources into my writing so that I can develop good collaborating skills.
I get ideas, advice, feedback and assistance in my writing from other Colleges, professors, my Dad, other articles or pieces of information, songs and quotes.
Summary: In Porter's Article, Intertextuality and the Discourse Community, He explains that all texts contain traces of other texts and that no work is completely original through the concept of intertextuality. He provides examples such as Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration based off of the ideas of many people and that documents should be accepted by a discourse community.
QD
2. I partially agree with Porter that intertext makes individual writers less important because their writing is a collaboration of others ideas and information making the thoughts borrowed. I believe because there are so many thoughts and ideas on a topic it is nearly impossible to write an article with all original thoughts and statements. But, there is so much information that sometimes it needs to be explained in a more clear fashion or like Jefferson, the ideas all need put together in an orderly way wether they are the direct ideas of the author or not.
3. According to Dictionary.com, autonomous is self governing, independent, and subject to its own laws only. On page 88 paragraph 4, Porter describes the romantic image of a writer as free, uninhibited spirit, independent and a creative genius. Therefor, an autonomous writer could be described as romantic.
4. I understand the importance of having acceptability within the reader's community because many of the readers have similar ideas or contributing information and knowledge. My papers have been evaluated by pier evaluating, my dad and my teachers. I thought my writing should be evaluated by a grade or how a teacher responds. I think that my papers need to be accepted by those interested in the topic and not by a grade or a certain way a teacher wants me to write.
5. I believe that Porter is right about intertextuality because the idea of intertextuality and all the terms that he talks about have been thought and written about by other authors and writers. At the same time, someone has to be the first to talk and think about something, but it is possible that at the same time, someone else could be thinking about the same thing. In his text, Porter is displaying the idea of intertextuality because he isn't talking about anything that hasn't been thought of before. He may explain examples differently, but the examples have also come from someone else.
6. There is much harm in imagining writing as individual, heroic and isolated because it most likely isn't. For students, it is impossible to create a paper and information without having some past knowledge. Also, Porter says it is important for students to know that documents like the Declaration of independence was the result of a large group of people rather than just one person. I completely agree.
MM- My idea has changed about writers being people who work to get their ideas on print because now I realize that all information is borrowed. I think that readers have different styles and ways of comprehending information so the writers help the readers understand by the way they collaborate information. I see writers as not completely original but "effective borrowers of traces" as Porter describes Jefferson in paragraph 8. Now i am challenged to better collaborate information (much more information) in a way that makes sense to argue my point.
REFLECTION
I thought this article was really long to explain the point of intertextuality and discourse communities. I am still a little confused on discourse communities but I liked the examples such as the Declaration that helped to explain intertextuality. My views have changed on writing by the concept of intertextuality and it has motivated me to bring many sources into my writing so that I can develop good collaborating skills.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
January 9
I believe that rhetoric/ rhetorical is a strategy in which the reader pays attention to the position that the writer has and to the claims the writer makes in order to make an argument.
Rhetoric has much to do with reading academic articles because not every piece of information in an academic article is fact. much is claim and the reader needs to have rhetorical skills to see the rhetorical situation so that they can make their own opinions instead of assuming certain things to be facts.
Kantz states that facts, opinions, and arguments actually are claims. Alice describes the difference between the facts and options are really how they are received by an audience.
In paragraph 17, Kantz states that students misunderstand because they read sources as stories, they expect the research to be truthful, and they do not understand that facets are a kind of claim.
- I defiantly expected everything in my books and research to be truth. I never really questioned anything. I now think about what was written by whom and what they wanted the audience to get out of it. Of course an article written by hershey will tell me that a bar of chocolate each day is good for me while leaving out facts about how this is also bad for me. If I understood that Hershey just wanted my business, then I would not really take this claim as a fact. This comes from reading rhetorically.
This article has taught me that every article written has some bias. Like Kantz says, there is always a rhetorical situation; a writer, audience, and a topic. The writer wants to portray a certain topic to an audience in a certain way, presenting information to support and leaving out details that argue the topic. We have to identify their position and reasoning so that we can question their support and details.
I feel like I will now be able to be much more aware of the background of the author I am reading. I will collect many different sources so that I can gather an argument that presents many sides. I will question many facts and now look at them as claims instead of truth.
I believe that Kantz is trying to show that claims are constructs because they are not completely fact, but are opinions based on the concepts already formed. It would be useful because she is showing us different sides to reading and writing that I have not been introduced to. This makes writing much more meaningful instead of just presenting facts, we get to see the loop holes and form our own argument. This will help us to be able to write better papers but also understand and carefully read in everyday life.
I really liked this article because I was introduced to a completely new way of reading and writing that is so much more efficient and meaningful than previously. Now I am aware of the rhetorical situation and will be paying much closer attention to points of view and claims made.
Rhetoric has much to do with reading academic articles because not every piece of information in an academic article is fact. much is claim and the reader needs to have rhetorical skills to see the rhetorical situation so that they can make their own opinions instead of assuming certain things to be facts.
Kantz states that facts, opinions, and arguments actually are claims. Alice describes the difference between the facts and options are really how they are received by an audience.
In paragraph 17, Kantz states that students misunderstand because they read sources as stories, they expect the research to be truthful, and they do not understand that facets are a kind of claim.
- I defiantly expected everything in my books and research to be truth. I never really questioned anything. I now think about what was written by whom and what they wanted the audience to get out of it. Of course an article written by hershey will tell me that a bar of chocolate each day is good for me while leaving out facts about how this is also bad for me. If I understood that Hershey just wanted my business, then I would not really take this claim as a fact. This comes from reading rhetorically.
This article has taught me that every article written has some bias. Like Kantz says, there is always a rhetorical situation; a writer, audience, and a topic. The writer wants to portray a certain topic to an audience in a certain way, presenting information to support and leaving out details that argue the topic. We have to identify their position and reasoning so that we can question their support and details.
I feel like I will now be able to be much more aware of the background of the author I am reading. I will collect many different sources so that I can gather an argument that presents many sides. I will question many facts and now look at them as claims instead of truth.
I believe that Kantz is trying to show that claims are constructs because they are not completely fact, but are opinions based on the concepts already formed. It would be useful because she is showing us different sides to reading and writing that I have not been introduced to. This makes writing much more meaningful instead of just presenting facts, we get to see the loop holes and form our own argument. This will help us to be able to write better papers but also understand and carefully read in everyday life.
I really liked this article because I was introduced to a completely new way of reading and writing that is so much more efficient and meaningful than previously. Now I am aware of the rhetorical situation and will be paying much closer attention to points of view and claims made.
Friday, January 6, 2012
First response
1. We need to be able to understand how to gather information, make conclusions and opinions in reading so that we can write well in any format. Whether that is persuasive, informative, or a research paper, we have to be able to understand the reading well to be able to write well.
2. I believe that Burke is explaining that writing is an ongoing process of ideas, arguments, opinions, and information. The Process never ends. I believe Greene restates the quote because it is a great way to explain the process of writing as discussions with many different argumentative sides. This quote presents writing as a piece which many opinions and arguments are formed off of to challenge certain writing.
3. Framing is a strategy that helps you think of the opposing argument so that you are prepared with information to defend your own. The metaphor explaining framing is a photographer who draws attention to what he wants people to see while blurring out what he doesn’t see as important. This is how writers portray their information.
It is important because it helps you to be organized. You establish your position, define and describe your position, allow others to respond to your argument after clarifying it, and through all of this, you are able to organize how the argument will work. Framing allows the writer to make certain concepts and ideas known while hiding others.
(21) Greene’s article represents a conversation because he brings different sides into his argument but makes his argument known and clear. He is speaking to anyone who wants to write effectively. He is framing his argument because he established his position, described and clarified it and then taught how to effectively use it. I believe he believes what he preaches as in “argument as a conversation” because he is defending his side well with many examples and is ready to defend other arguments and explains that arguments make writings better.
2. I believe that Burke is explaining that writing is an ongoing process of ideas, arguments, opinions, and information. The Process never ends. I believe Greene restates the quote because it is a great way to explain the process of writing as discussions with many different argumentative sides. This quote presents writing as a piece which many opinions and arguments are formed off of to challenge certain writing.
3. Framing is a strategy that helps you think of the opposing argument so that you are prepared with information to defend your own. The metaphor explaining framing is a photographer who draws attention to what he wants people to see while blurring out what he doesn’t see as important. This is how writers portray their information.
It is important because it helps you to be organized. You establish your position, define and describe your position, allow others to respond to your argument after clarifying it, and through all of this, you are able to organize how the argument will work. Framing allows the writer to make certain concepts and ideas known while hiding others.
(21) Greene’s article represents a conversation because he brings different sides into his argument but makes his argument known and clear. He is speaking to anyone who wants to write effectively. He is framing his argument because he established his position, described and clarified it and then taught how to effectively use it. I believe he believes what he preaches as in “argument as a conversation” because he is defending his side well with many examples and is ready to defend other arguments and explains that arguments make writings better.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
What is writing to me?
Writing is a way of portraying emotions, stories, events and creativity among many other things. Writing can be about anything one wants it to be about. Stories and traditions from generations and cultures can be passed down, a world of fiction can be created be imagination, advice can be given, rules can be made and kept, documents can be made and contracts can be signed. There are thousands of reasons why we write. I write in a journal so that i can remember what i read that day, what I was thinking during a certain time, or recall a certain event in my life.
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